Non-fiction+Book+Suggestions


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__The Silk Roads__ by Peter Frankopan (KV) Challenges the view of the West as heir to a pure Greco-Roman culture. Demonstrates the inter-connectedness of cultures; the economic and social impact of the silk and slaves trades, the Black Death, and the Buddhist influence on Christianity. History Book of the Year 2015 by The Daily Telegraph.

__Timeless__ by Lucinda Franks (KV) In this literary memoir, Lucinda Franks, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, tells the intimate story of her marriage to New York’s District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau,

__The Big Short__ by Michael Lewis (KV) The financial crisis of 2007-2008 through the personal histories of several Wall Street outsiders.

__Alexander Hamilton__ by Ron Chernow (KV): this is the book on which the musical is based. But it s quite long - 832 pages.

__A Moveable Feast__ by Ernest Hemingway: Memoir about his years as a struggling young expatriate journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s.

__Cleopatra: A Life__ by Stacy Schiff: Biography

__A Crack in the Edge of the World__ by Simon Winchester: About the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco

__Lost in Shangri-La__ by Michael Zuckoff: About the rescue of the survivors of a US military airplane crash in New Guinea on May 13, 1945.

__H is for Hawk__ by Helen Macdonald: Memoir of adopting and raising one of nature's predators, a goshawk, as part of her grieving process from the unexpected death of her father.

__The Sixth Extinction__ by Elizabeth Kolbert: A chronicle of previous mass extinction events and description of accelerated widespread extinctions during our present time. Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

__Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance__ by Robert M. Pirsig: Originally published in 1974, it describes a 17-day journey on his motorcycle from Minnesota to No. California by the author and his son. Includes numerous philosophical discussions.

__Season of the Witch__ by David Talbot: The 1960s and 1970s in San Francisco including the Summer of Love, Zodiak killer, Patty Hearst kidnapping, Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, murder of Moscone and Milk.

__The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating__ by Elisabeth Tova Bailey: During an illness that keeps her bedridden, the author observes the curious life of a common snail. She uses a small part of the natural world to illuminate our human existence and appreciate what it means to be fully alive.

__Destiny of the Republic__ by Candace Millard:a really well written suspenseful tale of "the historical turmoil that got James Garfield elected president, the madness that got him shot,and the medical malfeasance that turened a mnor wound into a mortal one." Janet Maslin, Top 10 recommendations for 2010.

__On the Move__ by Oliver Sacks. His autobiography, written at age 80, got very strong favorable reviews from a panel of readers from the book group formed by Science Friday members, on NPR. Discussion on radio 2/1216.

__The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe__ by David I. Kertzer - Pulitzer Prize Winner. - DZ

__Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg__ by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

__Up in the Old Hotel__ by Joseph Mitchell chronicles the lives of odd New York characters. He wrote for The New Yorker for 30 years.

__Dark Money__ by Jane Mayer gives an account of how the Koch brothers and other super wealthy donors deployed their money to change American politics

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